fishmonger
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Is fishmonger a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (British) A person who sells fish.Examples: "If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers."Synonyms: fishman, ichthyopolistBritish
2. (British, rare) A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.Examples: "And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]"; "A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought."; "Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger."Britishrare
3. (figurative, archaic) A pimp.Examples: "Excellent well; you are a fishmonger."archaicfiguratively
Definition source: Wiktionary